Technologies for the Preservation of Prehistoric & Historic Landscapes
Office of Technology Assessment. 1987. Technologies for the Preservation of Prehistoric & Historic Landscapes. Cultural Landscape Guidance Documents. Government Publishing Office. Washington, DC
This background paper, which was requested by the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, identifies and examines the principal technological issues related to the identification and preservation of prehistoric and historic landscapes. It extends the general assessment of Technologies for Prehistoric and Historic Preservation released by the committee in 1986. This background paper explores several important issues raised in that debate and places them in the overall context of prehistoric and historic preservation. It emphasizes technological issues related to the identification, analysis, and evaluation of prehistoric and historic landscapes. The paper derives principally from a workshop convened by OTA on February 27- 28, 1986, which met to discuss the range of issues in the preservation of landscapes. OTA also received additional material from review comments on a draft summary of that workshop, staff research, personal interviews with landscape professionals from a variety of disciplines, and from an informal meeting on landscapes held at OTA, November 13, 1986. This background paper is organized according to three broad categories: 1) discussion of the primary problems or issues that face landscape preservation; 2) identification of the tools for addressing these issues; and, finally, 3) exploration of policy options for putting technologies to work.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Office of Technology Assessment
- Date of Issue
- 1987-07
- Publisher
- Government Publishing Office
- Units
- CRPS
- Keywords
- Congress, historic landscape, landscape preservation, national survey of landscapes, Olmsted Heritage Landscapes Act, preservation technology